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How did that sound? “Can I help you?” Did you read it in a polite, helpful way? Or maybe you read “Can I help you?” and pictured a big burly man spitting into a tin and cracking his knuckles threateningly… (apparently I have a western movie playing in my head). My point is, first impressions are important. If someone were physically walking into your store, how would you approach them? Now let’s look at your online presence; what first impression are you giving?

DIY Sprocket Solutions

I wanted to take some time today to talk to everyone about my challenges with anything computer oriented. I know, it’s crazy; I work on a computer all day long. You should know this about me: from time to time I will google: [insert techy concept here] for dummies. It goes without being said, I have several face palm moments a week. A few weeks ago, I was asked to help develop a blog about User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX). For those of you out there going, “Yes, go on. Everyone knows what UI/UX is.” … just hold your horses. And for the rest of you, “Isn’t UI a urinary infection?” people; this one is for you.

The Sprocket Report

Emily Post was born in 1872, but she would have made an excellent social media manager as her social etiquette is still quite relevant today. Read on to see how Post applies to your social media marketing.

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After I went off on my tirade about resizing your photos, I kind of left you hanging… For those of you who want to ‘make it’ on all the top social media sites. It would be nice to have a cheat sheet handy of the standard photo sizes for these sites, wouldn’t it? Well in that case, you’re welcome! No need to start a riot with all the applause; really, it was my pleasure.

Tales of webserver migrations

We have been planning a server move for many months. Well, we had been planning to move one of our production servers this weekend, and the other one in a couple of weeks. However, communications went out to all our clients that this was the weekend of the move so we just moved both servers at once. I was a little nervous about this at first, as there were a total of four DotNetNuke installations to move, but in hindsight, I’m glad that it’s done now. There were domain names to coordinate and A records to change, moving many gigabytes of customer information including multiple SQL server databases (DotNetNuke and non-DotNetNuke alike) and a hundred other small things, but Don and I just rolled up our sleeves and...

New website provides loads of information

Parents no longer need to rummage around in a milk-soaked backpack in a quest for notes from their child's teacher. All Saints Catholic Academy in Naperville is now rolling out a revamp of its website that will help parents stay on top of news, guidelines and other information they need.